The Banzai Beat Anime Podcast
Selling Snurf with our Z-Mind
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And then we're going to look back, figure out what we've done wrong, and if we should continue. Wait, wait, wait. We've done something wrong? What? No, no, no. Everything we do is right. I mean, come on. Well, okay then. Yeah! Everything we do is right. Yeah! Everything we do is right. You know it. Sorry. Okay. We got news, episode reviews, and I bring you a review of Z-Mind, the 1999 Super Robot film that's set in the 1970s. And you're not going to want to miss this review because was it good? Was it bad? Or God, why did I watch this film? You'll find out later. Also got DVD pics, as always. I also got some news about things happening in the future, namely October 23rd through the 25th, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah I got some good stuff coming along. Econ is the name of it, G E E K K O N. I'm going to be there live. We plan on doing a show Saturday night or afternoon, or when we find out the schedule for the panels, I'm going to try to get an interview with Kyle Herbert, an American voice actor, and get some panel recordings and a couple other interviews, and should be good stuff. Also, another news, check out our Johnny Young Bosch interview that we did at A Fest. We have that up online and go to www.otacastradio.com, that's O T A K A S T radio.com, or search Bonsai Beat in the iTunes feed, I put it on our iTunes feed so you can listen to it through iTunes. Also on October 5th, we, as in me, probably Neo from Otacast Radio, Freak from Otacast Radio, and we'll see if maybe Mr. Zodar can join us. We will be interviewing J. Michael Tatum, so that should be really fun, pretty cool if we have more interviews with more voice actors, so. Yes, yes. And when we get an interview with Chris Ben Freeman, who knows, who knows. Wait, when, how, do you want me to go get him? Should I be emailing him now and be like, "Look, my friend has a bro crush on you." I met him once at the convention up in Minneapolis, so he gives talks there. So, no, I seriously doubt he will remember who I am, but the, the guy who's the physicist who does, who analyzes anime intellectually, up at, at the, uh, school world's and mobile suits convention, which is the absolutely best name for a convention ever, uh, I will only wish. I, I, it's misrepresenting. But he and I reviewer me. You know what, it's funny. I was, uh, sorry, I mean, it caught over you. They're holding that actually tonight, right now as we speak, and we'd originally plan to go ahead and bring Zodar out here to my neck of the woods, but it's a hundred dollar entry fee on top of plain, hotel, food, strip clubs. Yeah, knowing we took you to strip club, you'd be like, hmm, what's the best way to explode the strip club using the elements? Yeah, you know, since I teach chemistry, but, you know, hey, if, if you're going to explode a strip club, I mean, you'd have to, you know, the bar would be really useful. Yeah, yeah, all the alcohol would be useful, but you'd have to think about, you know, flying, um, uh, flying shoes and, you know, flanks to let it go. Well, you know, if we keep talking, though, the FBI may not get an recording. That, that, you're, you're from Afghanistan. It looks like we're going to racial profile you. The terrorists are going to start attacking the strip clubs. Oh, no, don't say that. That's true. Yeah, well, that would get the Republicans upset, wouldn't it? Okay. Well, we should get into the news because we have asked tons of news. It's asked tons of word. Uh, probably not, but you know, hey, whatever. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. This week in anime news brought to you by anime news network. See, that's how good we are. We have Tom Hanks saying, "Okay." I think that's Tom Hanks. I don't know. Um, New York anime fast is being held right now. And it's kind of a big deal. Remember our last show we talked about how New York anime fast and New York Comic Con are going to be held together next year. So last time you get to do everything by yourself. I don't have a lot to say about this, but some manga got announced from vertical. I've actually never heard of them before. And I actually go look at who they were because I was like vertical who? I'm not a big manga person. The North American manga publisher vertical has announced in its New York anime festival panel on Friday, which is today. It licensed Felipe Smith's PPO Chew and Koi. Uh, sorry, Ku, Yagu, Numa's twin speaker. It's how you say it. And a new speaker evidently in Japanese. Needle. Never heard of that one either. Or it's called seven billion needles. Another anime science fiction in the best one of all. This is awesome. Cheese, sweet home, the manga. You can't get enough of a bazillion episodes of 10 minute or 10 minute anime of Chi. Now you can get her in portable paper or form and you can read about her adventures. And for those of you who don't know, Chi Chi is a cat. So so it's a manga about a house cat. It certainly I can't think of my cat would make an interesting manga, but you know, hey, man, he's cliff was though. This is probably true, probably true. So yeah, good to see some manga being released. I can't say I've heard of any of them other than Chi. So it might interest you might not interest you. We should say that, um, the PPO show is actually an American guy. Yeah, it's an American originally written in English translated to Japanese. So it's American guy writing creating a manga in Japan for Japanese readers, which is kind of cool. And it's evidently about a hardcore otaku from Chicago, who becomes in fashion with Japan. That's because Chicago's so hardcore. Yeah, dude, do to his favorite manga, which they don't say what that is. But so one day he wins this trip to Japan, but it's actually a stage mission for an assassin named Gil to kill a Yakuza member. So that's kind of interesting, but the whole like, he's from Chicago and he's an otaku. He's super otaku that he wanted trip to Japan, but now he's got to kill or be killed. Yeah, yeah, Pepe Felipe or. Actually, yeah, whatever. Choo Felipe baby. Pepe Pepe, the Mexican rat from Chicago. Funimation ads, X TV slash OVA. And then five initial D. Animes are five anime stages. I'm sorry. Initial D. Why? Yeah, it's been like crazy over the top. Like everyone knows who initial D is. Yes, because it sucks. Yeah, I actually had a friend who loved it. Actually, not a friend, but a co worker. He was like, Oh my God, if you see an initial D, I'm like, Nope. Oh, I should bring it for him. Like, yeah, I don't think. But now X X is good. What is X about? What is X about? This this guy is, oh, it's really, really hard to explain. I own it. But in a while, since I've watched it, it is basically there are two groups of dragons. Okay, one dragon is one dragon clan is protecting the earth. And one wants to destroy the earth, basically, and start over because humans are evil, yada yada yada. And there are these two boys that are best friends as they're growing up. But it turns out that they are the leaders of these opposite dragon clans, and they find out, you know, when they come of age, and they have to end up fighting each other. And they, so they each get these separate groups of people to help them. And it's a whole bunch of sword fighting and magic fighting and all this kind of stuff. Very, very well done, very stylish. So why can't they just be like, you know what, we're fucking friends. We'll just go stab these dragons in the eye and sit there throughout and be like, we're because when the one when the main character chooses a side, the other guy basically ends up choosing automatically the other side and ends up hating him and is no longer his friend. So well, what's up does all right, I hate the I hate the human race now. Yeah, what a coincidence. I love the human race. You're fucking dead, Doug. So so he does he they end up. I mean, it's very well done. Okay, well done. Well, if you watch it, we know it's good after last week's shenanigans. I'm not sure what you're referring to the whole Naruto thing of oh my God, it's got to be this. Yes, yes, yes. If I watch it, it's good. You are correct. Uh, Nana Miyazaki voices Japanese window seven premium character. This is kind of cool. Of course, I don't know who she is. I guess. Yeah. Yeah, I don't either. But you know, Microsoft plus anything related to anime kind of equals one. The Japanese premium set of Microsoft windows seven ultimate edition will include an original wallpaper that'll be all there in it in about five minutes. And invent sound set based on the character named Naomi, Adobe, maybe Adobe, the PDF company licensed to have her. She's voice acted by Nana Mizuki. Apparently she plays in Naruto. So she's pretty popular. If you watch the show and it's Japanese edition, you should know who she is. If you do, please go out and shoot yourself now. No, we need more listeners. Yeah, we don't know. Not too that. So you can get this October 22nd when it's released. So yeah, cool. Yeah, like her soft and anime. Yeah, the name evidently can be interpreted as wordplay on her name and the Japanese word. Adobe, which evidently means by the window. So by the window. Yeah, yeah, when Microsoft trying to make a joke. And of course, since you know, they're all geeks, it's not funny. But oh, well, Mark, I'm going to laugh their ass off like, yeah, this is great. So if you watch the Italian Axis of Powers web series. Yeah, no, I have absolutely no idea what this is about. I was looking at this before and I'm like, never heard of this. You don't want to watch stereotyping nations at a table that's hilarious. No, no, generally not. I try to go away from that. Whenever I want to stereotype nations, I just, you know, watch them. I'm in a job in the talk at the UN. Oh, okay. Well, if you do watch it, you can watch a movie of it. September 30th and on the official website, they're greenlighting a film. It's the cynical gag manga and anime. Take the architectural type of characteristics of about 20 countries and regions, and analyze them mostly as by showed by shown in characters means pretty boys. And reimagines various historical events, including World War one, World War two, more than 700,000 copies have been sold of the first two published manga volumes since 2008. So what do they use and wonder for the archetypical characteristic of, you know, well, like, like, America is like, pushy and like always telling how people how to do things. Okay, well, that pretty much in like Italy, like all you shot is like, don't you love spaghetti? It's like something much spaghetti. Italy loves spaghetti is what I remember. What do they do for France? Just don't curiosity. I think that might have been France. I don't remember one episode for the guy for French should always be running away. And you know, yeah, he was like hiding behind people. Yeah, there we go. That works for something. I don't know. I think I want to work. I think I only walked a very first episode. They were all at a table. And they were all spouting like stereotypical crap. Like, I didn't care for it, but it was funny. But it's really popular. People really like it. I mean, heck, even that con I'm going to. One of the panels is called Hetalia Access World Summit, where all the Hetalia Access people who come and cosplay are going to come and cosplay a world summit, apparently. I'm going to avoid that like a plague. Oh, no, you must tape that. I so wanted to see that tea, a tape of that. That sounds like it would be so unbelievably hilarious. I would so go and cosplay as the American guy and just be like, because it'd be so much fun to just be a total dick and tell everybody else what to do. We are America. We are great. Yeah. Screw you. You must do this and you must do it now. Oh, no, I mean, that'd be awesome. Or I'd have to cosplay the French guy and just, you know, go hide behind your people's baguettes. Yeah. Look, what do you think of France? I hate France. That's a bag of baguette to play the head. Yes, that has the, that has potential to be funny. I think you should go and, you know, you should do a live version of that, where you watch that and you tell us what's happening about us live. Yeah, yeah, you're the newsman and you're getting the news of the world summit. I'll play CNN. Yes. Oh, wait, no better yet. I'll play Fox News and spin it. Fox News. That would be good. You could talk about, you know, you could be likely Japan is declaring war. Oh, no, they're not. Japan says they want a peacefully mate with the United States. That's right. Right around time Pearl Harbor. Just mating war. What are you talking about? Ah, that, that, yeah, that would be hilarious. You really should do that. I don't think so. Oh, that would be hilarious. Made. Send email to us and tell us how wonderful that would be. Convince him to do it. Oh, yeah. Speaking of that, I'm a dumbass. I have set up a brand new email address bonsib@gmail.com. You can talk to both Zoldar and I, or we can email us individually. We'll tell you more later on. Sorry, I just popped in my head as you mentioned about emailing. No problem. So the greatest news of the week, maybe. Oh, so shocking. The Awe Press founder has been arrested for alleged drug sales. Dun, dun, dun. I don't have any dramatic music to play. I was trying to find that the thing that, uh, what's his face on CMB or MSNBC uses for the worst person of the day? That would be, um, countdown with Keith Oremen. Yes, Keith Oremen. There you go. Yes, what Keith Oremen uses for his thing. The worst person of the day. Um, Yamia Abraham is, this does not sound very Japanese. I mean, Abraham is like American. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. Oh, yeah. I love the fact that a Yowie Press founder, you know, a boy love founder is selling. Oh, you don't even better. It's happened in America. Oh, oh, maybe he is. Maybe he is American. Yeah. Is it district attorney for Nevada? Yeah, this is awesome. It happened in Las Vegas. What better place to like do Coke and sell all that crap. So let's see. So you can get your, your boy love manga and, and your stimulant. So if the boy love manga doesn't stimulate you enough, I mean, you know, how go ahead and read the article. Oh, all right. So the Las Vegas son newspaper and the K VVU and KLS television stations are reporting that Yowie Press founder, Yamila Abraham, which is definitely an American name, was arrested on Monday for allegedly selling a controlled over the counter stimulant as an orbital remedy on the inactive. I'm assuming now pleasureherbs.com website in 2005, 2006. She was charged with seven camps of counts of mail fraud, one count of misbranding a drug, one count of introducing goods into US commerce by means of false statements and criminal forfeiture. Why not just charge her for selling drugs? I don't understand. Abraham pleaded not guilty in court later that day in the case we'll go to trial in November. Cheer. We have such great, wonderful, quick justice in America. In her Twitter account, Abraham described the local media reports as sloppy and inaccurate on Tuesday. She added in a Wednesday blog entry on the Yowie Press website that she is not allowed to discuss this matter while it's still pending. But this situation is not going to end Yowie Press. Darn. Abraham said that she mexico's anime land otaku mex convention this weekend. Southern California's West Hollywood book fair on October 4th, Utah's anime St. George, which is a hilarious name for a con, on October 10th, and Northern California's Yowie con on October 30th. Yowie Press sells English language boy love materials at conventions. From 2004 to 2006, the pleasureherbs.com website offered Snurf. So, what a perfect name for a stimulant. Snurf. I mean, I'm assuming the pills were tiny and blue. I don't know. But, and maybe they, they sang la la la la la la la. After you took them, I don't know. But Snurf. I mean, that's just way too close to Smurf for naming a stimulant. But, is evidently described as the long awaited pill form of 10x extractions of Feviza, Palenza, and Dila Amazon, which is basically no, no, I am a chemist. And these are chemicals that I have never heard of. And I can pretty much guarantee you do not exist. Each tablet contains 500 milligrams of these herbal extractions per pill. Yeah. Greg browser, US Attorney for the District of Nevada, Alleges of the Tablets, actually contained Dextro Methropan Hydro-Bromide. That's not good. The active ingredient in over-the-counter cough suppressants. According to her indictment, Abraham, is he a brand-cough person? Yeah. That's why they guess they didn't set a caller for a charger with selling a legal drug because he was just killing soft cough medicine. No, it's weird. It's just it's cough medicine I swear. Yeah. Abraham initially had 20,000 tablets of DXM, which were labeled as tablets of vitamin B12. Oh, this indictment alleges that Abraham mailed seven packages of Snurf between November 22nd, 2005, and May 1st, 2006 to California, Illinois and Indiana. Indiana. Oh, it's better. Snurf or her website, Pleasure Herb. We could double as a sex site. Snurf is better. I don't know. Pleasure Herb. Pleasure Herb is pretty good. I have to say, but, you know. Coming up next week on the Pleasure Herb podcast. Yeah. I love the people who evidently did correct the descriptions of DXM have handles as "Dargo, N-X-T-C, and Tofu, sinceai." Well, they probably drink all that crap. Yeah, that's pretty good. You know what it says, my mother is into this voodoo, like, herbal bull crap. If she's listening, she's going to beat me. Yeah, it or as a chemist and, uh, this, you know, you know what, you know what, you know what the, what pisses me off? This is, this is crap. She should go to jail and. Oh, yes, but, but, but, but. She does boil up. What about all the other bullshit that you hear about? Like, we've got a local AMTOC radio station lesson too. Well, early in the morning, at like five to six in the morning, they'll have this show on. And the first thing they'll say is, this medicine has not been evaluated by the FTC's, any statements made. This is not intended to help, heal, blah, blah, blah, you know, do anything. Oh, wait, we've got the greatest natural extraction. You know, like, why are these people on the internet or on the radio? Why isn't like the entire, why is it just this person? I mean, granted, yes, she's illegally marketing pills that are, you know, supposed to be one thing. But obviously, I mean, yeah, do I need some bromide? Doesn't bromide go in like in chlorine or something? It is a halogen like chlorine, but the bromine in itself is not a problem. I mean, the stuff is actually just cough suppressant, which is what with a problem here is, is that she was selling something and saying it was one thing when it was really something else. Oh, I understand that. It's like, why don't you like look at everyone? Like, their marketing is bullshit is organic and. Oh, yeah. And I'm sure, you know, if they had the money, they would. But this is why you only buy things from a doctor or that have been evaluated by the FDC. You mean FDA? FDA? Yes. You have it. Well, the FDC, evaluating my frickin life at Bill. We have an FDA for a reason. There are some things the government should do. This is one of them. Yeah. So, yeah, this herbal crap is just that crap. Okay. But you know, it's cool. Pleasure her nerf. Yeah, I love that to say she has good names for her stuff. Yeah, I don't know what else like she named him. Yeah. Ain't no pounder. Ain't no bad. Yeah. Well, she has a boy loves breasts. So you never know. I want to say at least it's a girl. I mean, at least it's not a guy who's like, yo, he's just a girl. That's all I got to say. But it's weird. Yeah. At least in Japan, boy love is more popular with women than it is with men. That's a good thing. I agree. But I don't understand that. Why do women want to watch what is basically gay sex? They're women. Why do we like lesbians? Okay. Yeah. Okay. Good point. Point taken. Probably is probably actually the same thing. Exactly. Okay. I had never thought of that. So if you enjoyed Conan O'Brien visiting bang zoom entertainment, they did it again. And it was even funnier. And you can actually go to Hulu or Conan O'Brien dot com dot NBC dot com dot gov wherever you find these videos. And then posted them in their article. You can also go there and check it out. Um, they went back to bang zoom and they dubbed blood the last vampire frickin high larius. And I really wish I could, I could play this for you, but you need the video to understand it. Yes, you do. And it, um, I mean, anybody who's seen as anybody who's seen this movie knows the movie pretty much makes no sense to begin with because it starts in media rests and you never figure out really what's going on, which is why blood plus is actually good because it gives background and you learn what the hell's going on. Oh, wait, is blood plus the same thing? Yeah, blood plus is the same world as blood the last vampire. But unlike the movie, it actually makes sense. Uh, it has its own problems. Uh, and it doesn't end well, but it is better than this movie. So they, they, you know, they make the movie pretty hilarious, but it is also just very wrong because they make it look so even worse than it is. Um, so I don't know. I'm, I am still the jury with me is still out on whether this is a good thing for the anime industry or not. Yes, it's getting. Yeah, it's just poking fun. Right, but is it making us look stupid? No, I don't know. And we look stupid enough. You know, we can do this for anything. He could go to frickin the Simpsons and be like, Hey, how about we dub some Simpsons where, you know, what's the voice record? Some Simpsons episodes or clips or family guy or robot chicken or any of these other shows that require voice over. No, it just happens to be anime and it's hilarious because no one's ever watched this show. Yeah, it's funny. The stuff he points out. Check it out though. It's frickin hilarious. I would love to play it for you, but it requires video. Uh, when, when he picked on the guy's hair, that was that was really a freaking news. Very raccoon. Yeah, that was very, that was very well done. I forgot what he called it though. Um, pop, pop and tart or something. I think pop and top. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We'll go ahead and read the next one. Uh, sure. Mr. Ponyo. Mr. Ponyo. Oh, right. So Ponyo is evidently doing well. Uh, it is has gotten $14.6 million, I think in this weekend. Uh, oh, okay. The box office Mojo website reports that Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's Ponyo anime film has earned an estimated US $167,000 during the September 18th to 20th weekend with 329 theaters, which is 260 less than last weekend. Uh, Ponyo has an estimated per screen average of US $535. Ticket sales dropped 72% from last weekend. So people aren't seeing it more than once, which is understandable. With a current estimated total of US $14,644,000. Uh, Ponyo is still the fifth highest grossing theatrical anime release in the United States. Uh, below Pokemon 3, the movie, which I don't know understand, but we'll get to that when we get to DVD picks. Ah, my, my loathing for Pokemon knows no bounds. But it's cool to see Ponyo doing well. It's not as when I get to the chance to review it. Uh, we'll say it's not his best work, but it's cute. And it's certainly better than I'm surprised. This city was the top third. It was the third top most. No, the fifth highest grossing theatrical anime release. So I mean, it's not the, it's not the, it doesn't gross more than like Disney anime. Well, no, no, no, I understand that. But I was a surprise. Like, I thought like 14 million was like, wow, that's a lot of money. And I guess it really isn't in the movies. Oh, no, no, no, I'm saying just in terms of anime and what's been brought over. I thought maybe that was a lot. I thought I was like number one or something. Yeah, it's evidently the fourth, which is this Pokemon three crap. Pokemon. Well, hey, Pokemon is too cool. So it had three million more and that's the fourth one. So I'm interested in one of the first is I wish we'd wonder why I do wonder what the first one would be. Probably Ava of some films. No, no, no, no, no, no. I even never did anime and movie. I would probably say, uh, Princess Monon. Okay, or Monomoke. I always say it. Makes sense. Because that is his best one, my far through the guy, Ritz. Even my friend who was never watching me was like, telling me about it. And I was like, what? It's like, it's so good. And I'm like, okay, it is, it is awesome. That is by far his best. Because I mean, it's the same guy. It's um, Miyazaki and that is by far his best one. Gotcha. Okay, well, no, we're not as heartless bastard as we sound. No, I actually does suck when someone does die. Um, last week, um, September 11th, the creator of Shinchan, um, Yushito, I think it's Uzi? I'm probably butchering his name. Um, so, excuse me. So this guy went hiking. He was going to hike this mountain and he fell and then he died. Uh, no one knew where he was. No one could get in contact with them. Um, they found a cell phone signal, but then it went away. Uh, they discovered his body 120 meters below the mountains. Um, pretty far drop. Uh, they also found his backpack about 50 meters away. Uh, and they confirmed that it was his body. Um, they said that he got his injuries, uh, collapsed lungs. Probably could play a big and other injuries sustained across his entire body sometime in the afternoon of September 11th. So it sounds like he fell a very, very, very long way and he got fucked up pretty badly. And he died due to his injuries. That sucks. Regarding his manga, Shinchan, they are going to finish up the last two chapters that he had done, release it in, uh, in November. And that's that. So, yeah, Shinchan is done. Which to me is not that much loss really. Well, to you. Yeah, but Shinchan is like huge. It's been huge for years over in Japan. It has. It has. But, and it is. As a kids, as a kids film or show, sorry, what? But a show about a kindergartener showing his master's parents just not interested. I don't know. I like the Funimation version. Action bastard will be sorely missed. Uh, I do have to say that is the best name ever, as you've said, for a action figure. But... Superhero. Superhero, yes. So, how long are we? Oh wow, 38 minutes. She got. There we go. Okay. Um, moving on. Final story. Firm uses a Gundam model making kit to test job applicants. This is pretty interesting. And I think we're gonna start talking about donation. It's called Send Bats to this tooth making place. 2009. Only need maybe about three grand donate now. Yes. So, send us money and we will, uh, do a live show or pass interviews for this job. Yeah, we'll have a hidden webcam on them. Yeah. We'll be good. So donate now. PayPal, credit card, check, all except cards. So, I think that will have an orgasm when he hears about this. Hopefully it's important to happen. Oh my God. Yes. But yeah, I don't know. So, uh, the Tokyo-based artificial teeth maker, BitTech, global, has introduced Gundam model making into its job applicant tests for this year's new college graduate. Well, he is graduating college this year. Yes, he is. So, as part of the group, oh, they're group interviews. Wow. Yes, you have to work with a group of other people doing this. Oh, group interview. Um, they are going to be building the Char Zaku 2 robotic mecca for the Molesu Gundam anime within three hours. This thing looks pretty detailed too. I mean, it's not the picture of the model, but I've seen other robot or Gundam stat, you know, models and they're pretty intricate. I sure as hell couldn't put together. You're going to freaking like snap on model together in three hours. So these guys that we pretty damn good. Um, I guess though, I mean, they're putting together the teeth. So maybe that's, I don't know, I don't know enough about what they, the people do who do this, but, you know, I mean, if they're interviewing their, um, they're high up, high up, you know, managers or something. Well, they're managers. These are people coming out of college. These are entry-level positions. Right. But are they going to be actually making the teeth or whatever it is these people do? Yeah. I guess so. This is probably to make sure they pay attention to detail. They're quick. You know, all that stuff. Um, what surprises me is that these, they do it by hand. I would have thought like, when I had like some kind of peer-operated machine, like CAD or something. Well, maybe this is, I guess this is high end comfort teeth or something. Yeah, they're the, they're the Rolls Royce of dentures. Yeah, the Rolls Royce of dentures. Yes. There you go. If you get these, they're good, damn it. So, all right. That is the news. Unfortunately, their website is in Japanese. Oh, it's a Japanese company. Yeah. Yeah. I have to say though, the teeth do, I mean, the dentures from the looking at their pictures. It looks like some damn good dentures. You're going to call them up. I need a pair. No, I don't. Not only happening. Any time you get scrap the bear, just send me the model. Yes, send me the model. Yeah. We, I do seriously think we should have pets call them up and ask to do, to do the interview, to do, uh, get, try and get a job with them. Just do you know, Japanese sir? No. Good day, sir. But I'm a Gundam fan. Yes. I love Gundam. Click. Yes. Don't ever call you again. I mean, I wonder how many people they are going to get who are applying for a job, just to make the Gundam model. I'm pretty sure that's, uh, I'm pretty sure they're not going to be like, it's the first interview. Let's do the Gundam model. No, they're probably like third interview in. I would think hope so. That'd be a lot of Gundam models. So, that would be maybe not a risk because they would probably get people lining up outside. Just because again, like, man, that'd be a lot of Gundam models all serious. So, that'd be like, one of them for every applicant? No, exactly. That's assuming like you've got to hit some qualifications before even like, at least through the first interview or something, you would think they wouldn't do in the first interview. Well, it's the group interviews. So, usually the group interviews are pretty early. I mean, at least in America. No, yeah. My only one in group interview I had was the first interview. Oh, that was a Comcast. It sucked. Three questions and that was it. And it's like already then. But I mean, testing, can you how well you work in a group too? Well, they don't say that. They just say it was a group interview. They didn't say it. Like, you were working with others. I mean, you'd think like a tooth. A tooth would be individual. You're not going to have four people on one little tooth. Maybe it might be a denture mouth. Yeah. Well, maybe it might be a mouth. Applicants are simple and paint. So, yeah, I guess you could be doing one. But it would make more sense to me that you could do it in three hours if you had a group of people working on it. That's very true. Some of the things like if they're doing handmade teeth, you would think like they'd be like, okay, here's a mouth filled with teeth. You know, today you're doing the cuspids. Tomorrow you're doing the crowns. I don't know. The molars. Yes. I don't know. Maybe they have they have one person who does the incisors and the solids. Exactly. That's all I know. The incisors are being phased out. Cuspid. The incisors are being phased out. Like, no. Ah, the strange Japanese. Yes. Well, let's go ahead and move on to the new or the DVD picks. All right. anime, manga, games, industry insight, fandom, diverse. All these words help to describe one of the most refreshing anime podcasts ever created. The anime 3000 panel with Sean Russell brings together various podcasters, bloggers, as well as members of the atomic press to discuss a wide range of topics. Each show brings you a variety of unique perspectives with consistency and flair. Check us out today and here are some of your favorite podcasters square off over topics that include anime, giant robots, trends and technology, gaming, manga and much more. Visit us at anime3000.com or get up to the minute news through twitter, keyword anime 3000. The anime 3000 panel with Sean Russell. Don't just listen, discuss. It's another week and more DVDs are being released. What should you get? It's time for the weekly DVD picks. All right, DVD pick time. Yeah, check on anime 3000. But good bunch guys over there. Ah, pretty interesting stuff. Um, DVD picks this week. Some good, good, good, good stuff finally coming out. Azah, Azah. Yes, I mean, this week we get Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Battle Dimension Boxet 3. You know you want it. Oh yeah, if you buy this, please go out afterwards and choose yourself in the parking lot of Best Buy. Yes, or at least castrate yourself so you do not reproduce. Wow, that's pretty severe, man. Oh, that's pretty severe, man. A bad name. Whatever. So why would you pick this week, sir? Well, Sergeant Frog is always supposed to be pretty hilarious and I do like anything makes fun of other animes. Yeah, go watch Lucky Star then. That would that would be a much better alternative. I have not seen Lucky Star, but the, um, how to say this, the fandom of Lucky Star turns me off from the show because the fandom is just a little bit too weird. Okay, you can say something about Haruhi. And I have actually cast. Shut up. But you can watch a test episode of Sergeant Frog. I've seen this set episode. It sucks. They did the same thing they did with Shin-chan. They cut off the episodes, they cut off the shows, redid they dubbed their own work over it. There you go. What's funny though about, you know what's funny about, uh, Sergeant Frog, though? Um, it loves Gundam. Gundam is a Bandai property. Not a Funimation. It's pretty funny. They have a lot of Gundam stuff in the show and Gundam related stuff. So it was pretty funny when Funimation came out and said three years ago, hey, we bought the right to Sergeant Frog. Yep. Well, you know, they're gonna, there's nothing wrong with one company advertising and other companies properties. There you go. But if you don't want that, you can always get the cantaloupe collector. The what? Yes, the cantaloupe collector. The cantaloupe? cantaloupe. The fruit cantaloupe. Mm-hmm. Three guesses on what this is about. Fruit? A fruit Sunday and evil fruit taking over the world. So it has to be a savior. Oh, no, no. Think about it. Cantaloupe. What looks like a cantaloupe? A bowling ball. Um. This is anime, man. You're not thinking dirty enough. I don't know. Rest! What else? Okay, I'm saying booby, but okay. Yeah. Evidently, this is about a guy that, um, it takes a just, well, when you've got what it takes to seduce a harem's worth of boozamy house-wise, boozamy spelled B-O-S-O-M-Y, which I love that. Then you might as well go all out. So- So what? What? This is a good cantaloupe though. Yes, cantaloupe, I guess. Or they're just using other reference. What do the girls have? The really big ass breasts. Yes, I'm assuming. In real life, you're like, why? Why isn't your back broken? Exactly. I'm assuming it's the, you know, overly ridiculously large torpedo breast. Yes. If you looked at them, you would be smothered. Yes, and this. And you would cry and die. Yep. Okay, yay cantaloupe. I'm gonna pick a much better show. So you said you were picking, uh- Mine would be sergeant fraud. Sorry, mine liked today. Honey and Clover box set one. They have sat on this shelf so freaking long. Even though like two and a half years ago, I found the dub for download. It's the beginning of another school year at Hamadiyama art school. Everyone's returning, ready to get back to college life of working and studying. And at first, all signs point to it being like any other new year at the school. But things change rather quickly when Professor Hanamoto introduces his young cousin's daughter, Higumi, to the game. Easygoing sophomore Yuta immediately falls for her. Higumi is a shy and talented new student who quickly mesmerizes her new friends with her dainty charm and quirky behavior. Meanwhile, popular sixth year senior Shinobu just can't see him to stay out of trouble. He's an incredibly gifted artist who probably doesn't take life seriously enough. However, Higumi is completely captivated by him. And then there's a Yumi. She's an attractive senior at the school and an accomplished pottery maker who befriends Higumi, almost acting like an older sister to the shy young prodigy. Poor Yumi is in love with Takumi, a fellow senior at the art school. But unfortunately, Takumi is developed an obsession for Rika and is unreceptive to a Yumi's feelings. Like many other college students, they all live the typical lifestyle, sleeping, eating, and dealing with each other's peculiarities and modest surroundings. This only allows them to grow closer as they learn the ups and downs of college life and prepare for what's to come. It's a funny and moving story filled with good times, friendship, promise, and unrequited love. A tale that's all tangled up between five friends and two love triangles. Welcome to the world of honey and clover. [Music] You know the first thing I'd have to say though, if my kid was a six year university student, I would be beating the shit out of him. You're paying your own way from now on. Yeah, my parents. You fucking fail. You're fucking failure. You can pay now. We tried. You want to be such a good art student, like look, he doesn't take life seriously. What art person does? They couldn't create art if they took life seriously. Hmm, that could make that banana statue into something really epic. You're not taking life seriously, Chuck. I guess you're right. [Music] I don't know. This is a myth, but uh, uh, yeah, I don't expect this to be very good, but okay, you know? I don't know. I've heard good things. If you like it, then that's good. No, check it out. But yes, no, I do not like sure. I can't get past the first episode to be honest. Then I've got honey and clover on the Comcast thing. You can watch first episode for free, then you have to buy the rest of them for $3.99 each. Kind of expensive if you do it that way. And you get nothing in return. Get no DVD box set, no nothing. Nothing you can rewatch. Pretty stupid, in my opinion. So that is the DVD picks. And now- Remember, if you pick up Pokemon, Diamond and Pearl- Kill yourself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get around to it. And now I get to break out a gem that I have not been able to use. I've only used it once in all 48 episodes of this show. Our long long lost anime. This kind of qualifies for it. They may be old, but they're not forgotten. It's long lost anime. All right. I only made a break that gem out once before. And that was for Marmalade Boy. Oh, so I turned my audio up. There we go. Marmalade Boy. So I was saying, I did Marmalade Boy. Um, that was the last time I had to use that. Otherwise, everything we reviewed is like 2002, 2004, etc, etc. I don't go back very far very often. At one point, I did have a Wicked City review, but it's for another time. That was never released, unfortunately. Okay, well, we'll get into it here. Z-Mind, such an awesome show. Z-Mind was released. Blah, blah, blah, let me say it again. Z-Mind was unleashed to the masses in Japan in 1999. The Japanese, entitled this show, Shenazuki, or I say this, Shiyahunuki by Shoujo, Gotti Robo Z-Mind. The battling days of the Shenmaki virgins. Just hearing this title alone wanted to make me cry. The story is set in the 1970s, where a family is having a nice picnic at a festival, and there is a mother, a father, four daughters, a brother, and a grandmother. Well, suddenly, the oldest daughter jumps up and swears somebody was calling out to her. The two younger sisters also agree with her that, wow, they sound like they're being called to. Suddenly, two American men in a boat, Karate Chop Ayame, the oldest daughter, and drag her out of the boat. You would think, okay, let's go get her back, right? This is a crazy thing I've ever seen. So, the entire family takes off in hot pursuit. The mother and the youngest daughter get on a boat that their uncle so happens to just drive by in. It's a ferry boat, but somehow it can go super fast because, according to the mother, he's super, he modified the engine. So, this ferry boat can whip down the river or whatever. This is, I don't know, I don't know what the fuck it was. His brother saying, "Hey, come back here!" and then jumps in the river. And, of course, the boat's already taken off by now. That doesn't do much. Sameeraine Renge, the two younger sisters of Ayame, go running down the street. They steal a motorcycle. Okay. The father and the brother steal a car and they all go rushing after this boat. That, mind you, is in the water. Excuse me. Sadly, all these Grand Theft Auto attempts are, you know, all these Grand Theft Auto and boat chasing isn't needed because a pale young man with curly hair jumps off a bridge into this moving speedboat, beats up these two men, and jumps out again with Ayame in his arms to another bridge, and all this well. Yeah. So, after all the excitement, everyone returns home, and the father's just angry, like, "Wow, that was terrible!" This and that. Ayame is stricken with love. Remind me of saying, "Oh, that was great." The father says, "No way, you're going to be dating boys." So, all three girls get all angry and go, "That's it. We're moving out!" And then, yeah. He's like, "Fine, freaking go. I don't care." So, he kicks them out of the house. They go to their aunt and uncle's house. They go to their aunt and uncle's house, the same person who owned the very boat. They offer them jobs. So, yeah. The next day, at their new place of employment, a alien ship pops out of the sky and attacks the boat. And so, the boat's being attacked, the same curly-haired guy jumps out from out of nowhere, saves Ayame again, and then drags it to, like, an oil, like, a big oil bear. Like, I mean, like, one of those really big oil dispensary bins. I can't think of it. Like, an oil rig or something, but it's not where they get oil till they store it. Anyway, so, she, he puts her in this oil bin, and she falls into this big robot and is a pilot of a big robot named the Z-Mind. Somehow, she figures out that she can control it and knows what to do and ends up defeating the ship. So, yeah. She doesn't know why, but she can control this robot. So, later on, back at home, after all this stuff is again, calm down. Um, the girls are met with an American man, the best name ever, for an American person in a Japanese anime. Jim Peckinpah. Yes, there's even a better name a little bit later. He says that they need a mirei, or, uh, saving Ayame to control the Z-Mind to save humanity. So, she agrees, but it also turns out, um, you can see her. Um, so, it also turns out they also need the two other girls, Sumirei and Renge, to do it. Ayame is like, no, I will fight, nobody else, and then they fight and they're all angry at each other. Well, it turns out, uh, later on, that these girls get told that, look, we're not your mother and father. Your father worked with the American government to make that robot that you piloted to Yame. Your father's name was Robert Corn. Oh, God. Yes. Like, what? And that he died piloting the robot 12 years before fighting the same robot, or say fighting the same aliens. But now, because your DNA is the same as your father's, you can control the robot and save humanity. And the funny thing is, is they go back in time, um, the father died, like, he's being, like, punched into the water. He had punched far as hell. He just, like, went in the water and the robot was like, blah, I'm dead now. My robot batteries are not charged, and I'm dead. And that's what happened. He died. But, uh, no, no, and Yame was first fighting that big alien ship. She gets, like, picked up and thrown into this, like, city and then slides. No, she's all good. But then the show, how her father died and was like, he's being punched into the ocean. Now, now he's dead. Didn't make sense. Um, so they're like, oh my God, my mother and father did all this. Oh, we should do this for them, because that's what they have wanted. And we kind of like living, and we like this town that we're in. So they all decide, okay, we'll save humanity for my mother and father and us, I guess. So save humanity, all three girls need to pilot their own robot. They, uh, can dock into a much larger robot and make this huge ass robot that can kick ass and take names. Now it becomes Voltron. Yeah. And they do, so basically they just fight with these aliens off and on. They whoop their ass and that's about it until the final battle. In the meantime, the curly haired boy turns out to have a name of Koji. They even have a small love plot between Ayame and Koji. But then the final battle happens. Koji is abducted by the aliens. Well, it turns out Koji was one of the aliens and he was supposed to help like kill Ayame or they don't exactly say what are you supposed to do? But he was supposed to be on their side, but he kept helping Ayame. And, um, so they're like, we must terminate you. So they strap him to a cross, like Jesus Christ, and shoot him with lasers. I'm not sitting here. Apparently, well, no, this is a metal cross. And I'm like tied down by his arm. He's like sitting there like Christ. He's like, eh, lasers. He's like, oh, I'm dead. And he falls through a hole. So yeah. So Koji is dead. Well, somehow Koji doesn't die. The girls get in the robot. They dock and they start kicking ass, but they're gonna butt kick because this is like the ultimate alien ship. This is like the ultimate people. So everything they do, they're like, just, oh, they just can't make it. They shoot their Z lasers. Oh, yes. They name everything Z something. Z boomerang, Z missile, Z laser, Z axe, the Z base, the base, or the station, the robot, the Z base. Seriously, like, oh, we must be returned to Z base. Z base. So Koji isn't dead after all. And somehow he can talk to Ayama through his mind. He says, I'm going to help you defeat the aliens so you can be saved. So he goes to the like the central area of the ship. The main ship thing is like a face popping out of something. So Koji just punches him in the face and the ship is weakened. Yes. Oh, he does this puncher in the face. His hand is stuck in his face and they're like, Oh, God, shoot it now. The ship is weak. And then they blow the ship up and everything's happy young. But they kill Koji. Yes, Koji dies. He's like, I'm going to die anyway. I haven't shot with lasers. He doesn't say it, but, you know, he seems to shot with lasers. He's like, Oh, yummy. Oh gee, the best part is he has a Mexican accent or I think Irish is Irish accent. So it's Irish. He's like, Oh, yummy. I don't have much time. We must do this to protect you and your planet. And I will tell you when to fire. So then he walks in this room and the alien head pops out. He's like, whoa, bunches in the face. They're like, no, the ship is weak. And then they fire at it and the ship is blown up. Ah, oh yes, and the Z base can fly and shoot missiles. Because they have the Z base and they're like, we're in the Z base. We're going to die. Like, no, we're going to fight and they shoot missiles and they're like, Oh God, it's not doing anything. So Z base, she's Z missiles, I guess. Yeah, so like, they're like, uh, when they're like on the, uh, they're when they're in the the thing fighting, it's funny too, because like the very first scene, like Yama doesn't even know what she's doing, but they're like, Z boomerang. And she throws a boomerang. It's like, how did you know this? You don't even know the name of this thing and you're yelling stuff about it. And like, maybe even like, and the way they explain, like, she knew how to do it. She's like, your father's DNA. Must need to just nose. Well, that and she had this like, light woman who would like, help her out. Like, this life, she was like in battle and not knowing what to do. This woman would appear, which happened to be her mother, the form of her mother that you later, they find out goes over and like, says, Hey, shoot them in the head right here. Oh, I understand Z boomerang. Oh, God, put it in the head. You won. This show was very tough to watch. Oh, God, damn fucking kids. Hold on a sec. Yeah, it sounds like it would be hilarious. Hold on a sec. This sounds like it would be hard to watch at all. Oh, wait, it was hard to watch. Okay. Catch one, bro, and sorry about that. Okay. This show is tough to watch. First off, the animation. This show looks like it, you know, it came out in 1999. This show looks like it was from the fucking 1980s. It's horrible. Um, I mean, like, the whole robot docking sequence and all that crap is like, Hey, it's really good quality. But overall, the characters, drawings are garbage. I mean, there's just three good looking teenage girls. Apparently, they're virgins, according to the title. So, um, let's see. Oh, yeah. And then it was like the stupidity of the characters. They're not deep at all. They're just like, you've got your loudmouth dad who's like, fuck you. I'll do what I want. You're just my daughter. Woah. And then you've got the sisters who are like, ah, fuck you, dad. We're better. We don't look right. We're gonna rock out on you. The loving mom who's just like, yeah, everything's great. And yeah. And then like the grandmother, who like, it's so old she'll take shit from anybody. Um, I'm gonna have to check this out. This really sounds like it would be alert. No. Okay. And there's another thing like, okay, there was like an opening scene where Yami was being kidnapped, right? Just dumb. They're like, um, I wasn't thinking much. They like doing things. Let me say what to put. Okay. The opening scene where Yami is being kidnapped, just dumb. I didn't even give much hope. What the hell is it trying to say there? Oh, yeah. Okay. I was mentioning about the whole, uh, about the whole scene. We're like, you know, she's kidnapped. Like out of the blue, like American people just, it's caught up in karate chopper and like, oh, taking her away. And everyone just freaks out and starts stealing vehicles to chase her. Um, finally, the dialogue is freaking awful. First off, there's a scene where you meet Jim Peckinpah. He goes over to the girl's house where the father is. And the father goes, oh my God, not you again. We don't want anything to do with you. Get the hell out of here. And the next thing that comes out of freaking one of the girl's mouths, do you know him father? No. I'm just yelling him to get the hell out of my house. I don't want anything to do with you again. It doesn't give you a clue. Do you know this person? Hmm. You're yelling at him like you've known him before. But I won't ask you this stupid question anyway. Like, seriously, who talks like that? Stupid or or or or. Um, the battle scenes. Maybe this is just common for big robot enemies. But the girls could not shut their fucking mouth. Every frick, every time they're going to do a move, it was like, oh, I'm going to kick your butt. Oh, yeah, you're going to get it now. Yeah, this is pretty common for us. It's like, oh, just do the move. Yeah. Like, why do you have time to like talk? You're getting your ass kicked. You're being zapped with like eels or something. No, you have time to like throw in a quip. Like, oh, you're going to get it there, buddy. Oh, but now I'm being attacked, being thrown across the ocean. But I have time to like, you know, quip. This is pretty much common for fighting animates. I figured as much robot enemies. I mean, that they'd in like, I mean, even in Dragon Ball Z, they do that kind of shit. Oh, no, they have, they have a sequiloquy. And yeah, that's true. There's a horse. Well, but when they when they combine to form the great big robot, did they have a nice, you know, I say there's really detailed sequence. Thundercats kind of thing going on there. Yeah, like legs would pop off into two parts and they show a little little thing with steam coming out or whatever it was and then interlocking and the chest was a big Z and an M that came out of nowhere. It's just materialized. It's a zero robot. Yes. Well, no, it was a Z and an M. Okay. And they're like Z mine. Yeah. And that was the biggest problem I had too, watching these battle scenes every fucking time. Z boomerang, Z missile, Z sword attack 513. That just got to do a move. Like, I'm going to punch you. No, I'm going to Z punch you and we're going to let you know about it. Yeah, I was knowing. This is what they did. They're like, oh my god, he used a boomerang. All right, Z boomerang. It's like, no, just do it. Shut up, just do it. You have not lost many of these. No, this is my first big robot anime. I want this is this is pretty much common. This is why they talk to talk to me. This is what happened. I wish bad for here. He's at NYAF. Can you probably say the same thing? We'll have to get his opinion on this. When I mentioned to him that I was going to be reviewing this, he's like, yeah, I just picked it up for three dollars and like the safe way. He's like, he found this entire thing for three dollars. But I just don't know. It was like, they just got annoying because it's like, how many times have you heard Z boomerang? How many times have you heard Z sword or Z missile or anything else? Just freaking do it. These shows were 24 minutes long. They just felt like they went on forever. Like I finished three episodes. I was like, oh god, there's three more. Because like a lot of it was just like fight, fight, fight, kick ass. All right, that episode done fight with the parents. Something stupid going on. Final battle. That's all it was. This show is, in my opinion, the worst show I've ever watched. I did not want to watch the show, but I watch it because I love you guys. Granted, my anime list doesn't even have a review for this show. Anime News Network has 14 reviews. And by many reviews on Anime News Network, you just rate it. So you should say it has 14 ratings overall. 14. This show is 10 years old. The show just starts off awful. And you're glad to get through one episode. But then you gotta go, I've still got more to watch. This show, I mean, if you're a big, if you're a fan of robot or super robot shows, this is probably going to be right up here, Ali. But honestly, they don't do anything worthwhile. They just got like standard characters, crappy character designs. The robot coming together is really good. But I mean, actually, it's the only good thing they ever put work into. Like they're just like, make it look really detailed when the robot is building. Because that's what fans only care about. And, yeah, because they did. That's it. I mean, one of the story arcs, the sisters are fighting because Ayame doesn't want them fighting in the robots. And they're like, we're not going to talk to you then. Yeah. The show does nothing. This show is very forgettable, but unfortunately because of how bad it is, you won't forget it. But like I said, if you're a fan of big robot films, you might like this. I don't know. This is my first. I own Gundam 880. I will watch it here eventually. But I figured, you know what? Six episodes is an OVA. There's barely any ratings. That should be good for a laugh. And it was. And even the first frickin scene where they have people karate, they're just picnicking and they bump into this like drunk guy. He's like, oh, y'all man, you're looking pretty foxy today. Here's a broken off cherry blossom tree. Stick. Here you go. And she's like, oh, thanks. Didn't have to break it, you jackass. And then she's karate chopped by Americans. You know, from the first five minutes you watch this, you're just going to be like, oh shit. What did I, what am I watching? What do you expect? And like another thing I'm going to ask to bring up. The robot contradictory. Okay. The first star in my Yama fight, it's just her. But she can talk that robot into one big ass giant robot and can control it by herself. But later on, she needs her sisters to do it, to dock. And then all three of them have to fight. It makes no sense. Why can't she do it by herself? But then later on she's fighting the same exact enemy. No, we need three people. We just want to get the big, you know, look how big it is and how badass it is out of the way early in the story. To keep all the robot otaku people like in their seat. I didn't understand that. Like, as they thought about it, I'm like, okay, she could do it by herself. But now she needs more people to do the same exact thing that she already proved she could do. So you see, there's one word in there that shows why you're not enjoying this whole thing. You're thinking. That's the problem. You're not supposed to think when you watch big robot movies. Well, so even the good ones. I mean, even like Gundam, you really don't think what you watch Gundam. You feel like, well, this sounds like Gundam has better characters, though, and a better storyline. People who are relatable. And like, I've watched some Gundam double zero when they aired on our sci-fi last year. It seemed all right. I mean, I kind of liked it, but it wasn't something I was like, oh my god, I can't wait for the next episode partially because I was like, yeah, we're Gundam, we're fighting in these robots. Yes. And now I'm half naked because I'm a chick and I'm a leader. I don't know. Maybe I just got a bad episode. Maybe it's just truly a bad show. Just trying to mark it on the giant robot frame. Maybe it's just lazy. I think the only way this could be popular is it's just because it is so bad. I guess. I mean, he was so popular. I mean, this is like, I don't know. This is released by Bandai Sunrise. You know, people who do fucking Gundam and all that. This must have been released like in 2001 or 2002 during the bubble of, oh my god, it's anime. Oh my god, import it. But it was so good. It got a dub for some reason. No, it's because Bandai dubs all their stuff. Um, I don't know. I found this that, in my opinion, I would rate this a zero on my anime list. I rated it two, which is poor. Not awful or I mean, I'm not unwatchable. One below that or one above that. Sorry. Um, but this was by far the worst anime I've ever seen. The characters made were just dull and no depth to them. It was just like, here, go fight in this robot, save humanity, but you have to fight the same anime over and over again until the final episode. That was it. Especially. Don't, don't, don't. Don't ever watch like really. I thought about picking that up here. Oh, no, they do not watch Voltron. Oh, Voltron. Yeah, yeah, because it is exactly like this. Yeah, I've had no interest in Voltron. Yeah, I know. I don't need my Porsche turning into a leg of a, of a robot. Yeah. Then they're lions. But even in, um, things like Sailor Moon, they do that whole thing where every time they do a move, they're going to shout something. Yes. Yes. Every time. But it gives you, it's even worse in Sailor Moon, because the battles are like five minutes, but three minutes of the battles are them shouting. Them talking. Yes. First, they will punch you with my ultramoon punch. And then I will flash you with my ultramoon panties. And we will end it by the normal panties. I will, I will defeat you in the name of truth, justice, and the moon, you know. There's no love in there. Probably there is. I don't know. I have watched very little Sailor Moon. I only remember, yeah, I only remember Sailor Moon growing up. It was on our local Fox channel. It was like, it wasn't like Fox Kids in the morning. It was like Sunday morning cartoons. When you didn't get the good stuff, you got the crap left over. The other moon was on one of them and I never watched it. Yeah, I got a girls in ballerina suits or whatever. I was too young to understand, like, hey, they're supposed to look hot in these short skirts. Yeah. But yes, that was my four ray, my four ray or I'd say it, four T into my four ray into giant robot anime. I think if it could be like that, I will never watch this garbage again. But now here's the thing though. Punch Ava or I've watched Ava. Okay, Ava's better. Yeah, I guess. Okay, I guess I can say the same though, Full Metal Panic. It's a mech based show, but I guess I like what like Full Metal Panic and Ava is they worry more about the characters. The mechs are just kind of there, but they aren't the vocal point. We're in the story of this show. The mech is the robot is the focal point. You know, in Ava, they aren't like, here's a five minute scene of it being built. Right, right. The characters are the focal point. I will have to give a list of good mecca that actually has characters for you. I would probably guess mostly Gundam. I actually picked up like Gundam 0080. It's not 0080. Team 0080. I don't know. I'm picking up out of savers for $7 for all, $7 a DVD. And there was like 16D or something like that. And they said, so I don't know. I will have to check it out again. Maybe I'll will here shortly. If you want me to review anything or recommend anything, because I'm getting kind of low on my lists of lists, email bonds, I beat at gmail.com. I would love to hear any recommendations. Yes, send us stuff about, you know, good robot anime so that we can stop him, get him from, move him from watching show Joe to watching better stuff. Yeah, so I think we're going to call it a quits here because it's about an hour and 25 minutes. After any preview of hour and 10. So next week's show, we will have news from the remaining news because it's only night one of the New York anime festival. Patch is there in attendance, so we should be able to get some good stuff from him and being there and all. And we get him to review Z-Mind and see what somebody who actually likes robot anime has to say about it. Yeah, yeah. We'll have to even if he was leery of it. We will have to get him to review it before he listens to your review. Oh, he already knows. I was watching the second episode and I was like, this is the worst show I've ever seen ever. But this show makes no sense and garbage. You can find my written review at otocastradio.com, click highlight the columns tab, and then highlight the anime reviews, and then Z-Mind, the very last one. That's alphabetical order. Next week, we'll be talking about the first, the next season of anime. I'm going to probably just go a little synopsis over maybe three to four anime's. We each kind of find interesting. And go from there. More news, more DVD picks, everything else you've come to expect to be episode 49 next week. Good, good stuff. Check out the new now working bonsaibeet.com. It's got a new facelift. I made it all look pretty. I'm working on show notes. If you look at what I've got, I've got the first one through five and then episode 47 and 46. Written up. They're very detailed. I've got everything you need to know. You can listen to all the shows right there on those show note pages. Very detailed. It spends about half an hour per each show note, about 10, 15, 20 minutes somewhere in there, depending on what's going on. But I really wish I would have written down really good epic show notes in the past. Save me from doing it now. Email me personally at jillacoon@bonsaibeet.com or follow me on twitter/jillacoon or @zaldar @zaldar z-a-l-d-a-r at bonsaibeet.com. Or you can find me as Zaldar on crunchyroll.com as well. So before we end that, before we end the show, are you watching anything more on crunchyroll? Yes. Yes. I'm not other than very musketeers, not right now. Been too busy to get a whole lot of watching of anime done, but I need to start watching Tower of Druuga. I heard it's supposed to be pretty good. I'm thinking of checking out Sketchbook 365, but I'm not really sure it's going to be up my alley. As much as you like shoujo, I think that will be something. You make it sound like I love shoujo. Shut up. But you do! Even live it, man. It's alright. No, right. I enjoy shoujo to a point. Characters make a big difference and a storyline makes a big difference. It does. This is true. On all stuff. Like my favorite shoujo, frickin' rumbling arts. Best fucking romance anime ever. Even though you could probably solve all the problems by talking. It usually works out. To a degree. Same with Marmalid Boy. Marmalid Boy is supposed to be good. It is, but it's 78 episodes and it's very... You can listen to my review. Go back, listen to my review. Yes, I'm up. I'll have to go back. Episode two or three. Sometimes next time, Mrs. Jullicoon saying thank you very much for listening. And this is Zaldar. Thank you for listening as well. Send us some emails. do it get me get no love do it do it
We discuss the tragic news of Shin-Chan creators death, The Yaoi press founder drug bust (Its good having a chemist on the show!) and review what Jellokun considers the worst anime ever. Z-Mind!